More Than A Headline: Turkey In Review
By Noor Adilah (17S06B) It started with the 2015 Ankara bombing. Then the second bomb came. Today, counting from 2015, there have been a total of 13 major terror attacks that scar Turkey. Search the...
View ArticleCasting Out Dark Circles
By Andrew Hidajat (17S03I) On my very first morning in Singapore as a foreign student, I was dumbfounded by the appearance of the 6am sky. While the sun began to rise at home, here, it was still pitch...
View ArticleWithdrawal of “Cry Go Where” Article
We have withdrawn our recent article “Cry Go Where?” and would like to sincerely apologise for the distress that it may have caused. Our intention was never to trivialise the issue, but we accept that...
View ArticleA News Article
by Bay Jia Wei (17S06R) There’s a confession to be made about my GP lessons, beyond the usual regrets expressed after exams: I suspect my GP tutor is an ambassador of BBC News. Yours could be too. Or...
View ArticleGet Up On Your (Press) Soapbox!
by Noor Adilah (17S06B) While the word soapbox may carry negative connotations today, its origins are rooted in a history of public discourse from everyday people about issues that mattered to them....
View ArticleArab Street Foodventures
by Noor Adilah (17S06B), Jeanne Tan (17A01B), Joan Ang (17A01B) Last week, three Press reviewers (henceforth labelled Stuffy Eater, Picky Eater and Iffy Eater) and some of their friends decided to go...
View ArticleRaffles Reviews – Comic Books / Graphic Novels
By Noor Adilah (17S06B) This article is part of a series of genre and format reviews done in collaboration with Raffles Reviews, an Instagram page by Raffles Debate. Click here for more beautiful...
View ArticleSaving the S.League: Confessions of a Tampines Rovers Fan
by Ernest Lee (17A01A) DISCLAIMER: I support Crystal Palace Football Club. Call me plastic. The first time I really enjoyed a local game was May 10, 2016. Tampines Rovers played Selangor in an Asian...
View ArticleOutliers of the Singapore Story
by Noor Adilah (17S06B), with guest writer Samira Hassan (17S05A) We all know what the Singapore story is about. We are clear about the concepts it stands for: the buzzwords of modernity, progress,...
View ArticleSayang, Sayang: Singapore Writers Festival 2016
By Joan Ang (17A01B) It is an oft-repeated declaration that Singapore does not have many arts events — and that those it has are largely inaccessible to the layman, being held by an “inner circle” of...
View ArticleTips Needed – Singapore’s Busking Culture
Lee Yun Ning (17A01E) Amidst our hectic school schedules, you may have heard faint tunes drifting from the canteen during your breaks. Your first thought might be that the canteen speakers are actually...
View ArticleIt’s a Whitewashing Matter
By Jeanne Tan (17A01B) So Doctor Strange hit theatres this week, and while my family was among those who have had the pleasure of viewing it, I decided to give it a miss (great movie fan as I am)....
View ArticleRiot! at the Diet
By Gan Chin Lin (17A01B) Images by Gan Chin Lin “I despair of the term ‘clean eating,’ though I actually like the food that comes under that banner. [‘Clean eating’] necessarily implies that any other...
View ArticleAchtung! – 20th German Film Festival 2016
By Bay Jia Wei (17S06R) As a student taking German as a foreign language, my friends have taunted me with an endless series of wurst jokes for the past five years. Occasionally, learning the language...
View ArticleWhere to Find: A Raffles Players J1 Production
By Yang Siqi (17A01C) and Nerissa Loe (17A13A). Photos by: Raffles Photographers. 3 4 5 11. Colourful chalked words all around the school’s hotspots revealed the dates of the Players’ latest...
View ArticleBlackface: The Burden of the Brutalised
by Sabariesh Ilankathir (17A13A) As many may have heard, Mediacorp’s streaming service, Toggle, recently released a controversial episode of “I want to be a Star”. The show itself is about calefares,...
View ArticleIn Defence of Trashlit
By Catherine Zou (17A01B) At the start of the year, I resolved, somewhat fruitlessly, to “expand my understanding and knowledge of the world”. With this vague banner of self-improvement came the...
View ArticleMarha, Marha! Middle East Film Festival!
by Noor Adilah (17S06B) A woman drives a car down a Saudi Arabian street wearing a fake moustache, donning men’s clothes. 20 people on opposite sides of a brutal protest spend hours trapped together...
View ArticleAdvofeste – Actualising Our Abstractions
by Noor Adilah (17S06B) This article is a preview of Raffles Community Advocates’ upcoming event Advofeste which will take place at Yusof Ishak Block from 2.00pm – 6.00pm. Interested participants may...
View ArticleBirds of Raffles
By Anonymous Writer Photos by Adriel Tan (17S06C) Raffles can have a surprisingly diverse range of birds, which can be found in a couple of hot spots. The School track, being in close proximity to...
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